Fuel price hike has become as another blow to over one lakh fishermen in Bhola, who are already in trouble for poor netting of hilsa after the end of fishing ban in the Bay two weeks ago.
After the announcement of hike in diesel price on Friday night, many fishermen abstained from going to the sea for fishing since Saturday morning due to increased cost of fishing trawler, resulting in poor supply of fish in the wholesale fish markets of the district.
Bhola District Fisheries Officer Molla Emdadullah told UNB that the fishermen will suffer due to the fuel price hike.
Talking to the UNB correspondent, fishermen said now they cannot catch sufficient hilsa in the rivers and the sea.
With the netting of only two or four hilsa a day, it has become difficult for them to bear the expenses and now increased cost of fuel pushed up the expenses, they said.
A medium sized fishing trawler needs fuel worth Tk 3,000-4,000 a day and in return fishermen can catch fish worth Tk 1,500-2,000, they said.